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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

Bill Parcells

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Bill Parcells
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 22
American Football Player
Coach
Football Head Coach
Englewood
New Jersey
Duane Charles Parcells
Ever
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.
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When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
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All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
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You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.
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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
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You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
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I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.
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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
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The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.
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I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
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